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Discuss the Ways which the Poets use Language to achieve their Purposes - Anthem for Doomed Youth, Does it Matter, War Exalts
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Discuss the Ways which the Poets use Language to achieve their Purposes. I will study three separate poems by three poets to see the ways they use language. All three poems are full of ironic overtures, in which the poets get across the message that war is not good, as the governments say, but hell. The first poem is 'Anthem for Doomed Youth', written by Wilfred Owen about the First World War. The title uses the word 'doomed', which has a strong sense of finality, and sets the mood for the rest of the poem. There are a lot of church related words in this poem, for example 'prayers', 'choir', and 'pall'. This is an ironic choice of words, as the poem is about the fact that the youth die without a proper funeral. This also gives an idea of glory in death, which the government says, but is an unchristian...
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